I think there is no place for dead, because in God all are alive according to bible.
Possibly, you have read what Paul says in the Book of Acts >
"in Him we live and move and have our being" > in Acts 17:28.
But living is not necessarily loving!!
We can live and therefore be conscious, but not love. And we have how a selfish person can be alive . . . conscious . . . but love-dead > for one example >
"But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives." (1 Timothy 5:6)
So, it is possible to be alive . . . conscious . . . but
"dead". And I offer to you that this means to be love-dead . . . not alive in God's love and Jesus Christ's way of loving. People can be self-seeking and self-loving and maybe somehow loving people they hope to use. Ones even can fall in selfish love, but really they are in love with what they want to use a person to get for themselves. Even love for children can be self-seeking . . . possessive, controlling . . . not in God's love. And Jesus warns us >
"if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" (in Matthew 5:46)
So, never mind some other universe; we have enough to do, now, here on this earth, to find out how to love.
This can apply to men, too, of course. It is possible to be alive and conscious, but love-dead. Only in Jesus can we have eternal love-life in sharing with God who
"is love" (1 John 4:8&16).
And this is now > eternal life in God's love is now in Jesus in us >
"And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." (1 John 5:11)
Jesus lives in us who are God's children. So, already we are experiencing how the eternal life of God's love is. Because right now we have the Holy Spirit sharing God's love with us >
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5)
But there are love-dead things like worry, unforgiveness, and lusts for physical pleasure which can keep us from being alive in God's love.
So, yes sinners are alive . . . conscious . . . but not in God's love; they are alive in anti-love things, then. And God keeps them alive. But this is in an impersonal way . . . not how His love would have them be. He can effect them, but their selfish nature has them the wrong way. Now, of course God does not cause people to be selfish > this is not what I mean. James 1:13 is clear that God can not cause people to do evil.
But it is like how sunlight can contact plants and then the plants react in different ways. The sunshine can contact a healthy plant and it will grow. But if a plant has unhealthy roots, it will dry out in the same sunshine which is good for the healthy plant. Like this, Jesus was shining His love on everyone, on earth, but there were ones who reacted with love and trust, while others reacted by hating and crucifying Jesus. Their own character was their dictator, I consider, of how each one reacted to the exact same Jesus in exact opposite ways.
Or, perhaps we could say it is like how fire can burn trash, but the same fire can sterilize a surgical instrument. The fire is good for one, bad for the other . . . depending on the nature of what the fire is touching. Fire can burn your house, or cook your dinner.
Like this, Jesus can shine on Satan, and Satan is all nasty, not appreciating Jesus who is so beautifully wonderfully loving and kind and caring and sharing. But because of Satan's nature, no way can he appreciate being in the presence of Jesus.
Yet Satan is conscious and has been for a long and wily while.
So it is for one with a selfish nature. A selfish-natured person can take even a good thing in a bad way. For just one example, look at how people can be blessed with rain, but it is pain for them. The selfish character, then, is alive . . . conscious . . . but so able to make things bad for a person who actually has good things.
And if someone in sin does not get wise to this and trust in Jesus, he or she will reap so much more of this horrible mess of selfishness, once the person no longer has a physical body and all he or she can experience is how the person's character has become >
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life." (Galatians 6:7-8)
So, we will reap whatever we have already started to sow now. So, you can tell what you are reaping, by how you are becoming now, spiritually and emotionally. You are alive in this, and on the way to it becoming greatly multiplied after you die.
There will not be only some reincarnation, but a total reaping. God is creative enough to make a unique human, every time . . . no need to recycle.
The
"everlasting life" will be conscious, and the
"corruption" will be conscious . . . like they are now, but greatly reaped to so much more - - in intensity in us, I understand. Because we won't have our physical bodies to dilute what we are feeling.
So, right now, right here, we already are experiencing a sample of how we can become later. And now is the time to get the real correction we need, because God our Father of Jesus is able to get us right, in this life, on this planet. So, it is not wise to let our attention go elsewhere.